"Knew I had to make you mine/So black and sexy, you're so fine/I like it when you get hard/On Hillary in debate/You'll get your head of state/You can Barack me tonight."

Unfortunately, these lyrics are not those of the newest club hit from Timbaland or Kanye West. In all sad reality, they belong to the Barack Obama super-fan operating under the alias Obama Girl.

According to her MySpace.com page, Obama Girl - or Amber Lee Ettinger - is a 24-year-old model working for BarelyPolitical.com, a Web site with sexually suggestive ploys aimed at increasing voter turn-out among 18 to 24 year olds (Even their multi-colored neon light logo resembles that of a flashy stripclub sign).

As if being able to rhyme was the missing piece of the puzzle when changing the minds of political cynics don't believe in the competency of young voters, Hettinger's appearance on "The Howard Stern Show" clad in nothing but a lacy bikini and a model-vs.-model pillow fight against "Giuliani Girls" in the streets of New York City must have completely restored the faith of older generations.

What is even more disappointing is the little-known fact that Ettinger isn't even the true vocalist in the song "I Got a Crush on Obama," which has garnered nearly 8 million views on YouTube.com. The credit for that goes to Leah Kauffman, according to an article in The New York Times. So let's review from here: 24-year-old model, terrible song, causing loss of faith in our generation and lip-syncing. Don't we already have Britney Spears to accomplish those daunting roles?

Yes, I do have a sense of humor, and perhaps I am a bit more offended than the average American, but so many groups have dedicated the last six to eight years to inciting a 180-degree turn of older Americans' views on the apathy of young adults when it comes to politics.

Most people who commented on the NewYorkTimes.com blog believe that Obama Girl's sex appeal will help the Obama campaign, which denies any involvement or endorsement of the video. They also believe her efforts might affect the youth vote, but this is not what's needed to help our generation when it comes to being taken seriously in the political world.

The hypocrisy accompanying Ettinger isn't helping either. City Room, a division of The New York Times, reported that the face of Obama Girl didn't even vote in February in the New York primaries. Her excuse? She wasn't registered to vote in New York, where she currently lives and she was feeling under the weather and couldn't make it over to her voting state of New Jersey.

However, in the same fashion as Britney, Ettinger was spotted out partying the same night - point proven by this classic stereotype carried out by the very person who claims to be advocating the young adult vote.

I spent my freshman and sophomore years of high school traveling Kansas and the U.S. promoting an organization called Freedom's Answer as the Kansas State coordinator.

My high-school principal even took a one-year sabbatical to help run the campaign on a national level. A nonpartisan group for high-school students beginning in 2002, Freedom's Answer had support from both sides and nationally registered hundreds of voters, many first-timers.

As it turned out, with the work of many organizations serious about changing voting habits, the national voter turn-out was the highest it had been since 1972 as reported by the Federal Election Commission.

As a generation, we seek respect and approval from the political world, yet all we seem to encourage and promote is what we try to disconnect ourselves from the most. Obama Girl will continue to make music. We will continue to crank out views on the Internet of who knows what. Maybe Obama Girl will come out with some Barack-obsessed version of Soulja Boy's "Crank That," and older generations will continue not taking us as seriously as we deserve.

Aubree Casper is a freshman in pre-journalism and mass communications. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.